Yesterday, after about 4 years of dragging the investigation, the Israel Police issued a report to the Attorney General regarding the criminal investigation of former IDF Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi and several other senior IDF officers of his entourage, regarding the falsification of the "Harpaz Document" and its distribution.

The affair was at times described by media as a coup attempt.

Anybody with brains would have realized from the start that the Shin-Bet had to be involved in the matter.

The involvement of then former Shin Bet chief Tamir Fredo (today Mossad chief) was previously published.

Today Haaretz daily published an excerpt from one of the secret recordings of a meeting of senior IDF officer Erez Winner and Harpaz:"The Shin Bet is with us", IDF Chief of Staff assistant Erez Winner calmed Harpza in one of their marathonic meetings, which were related to the growing confrontation between the IDF Chief of Staff and the civilian senior political ranks. [1]

Therefore, it is likely that Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein will cover up the entire affair and never move on to prosecution...

After all, much more honest Attorney Generals than him could not impose the Rule of Law on the Shin Bet... Highly regarded former Attorney General Meir Shamgar was forced to resign when he made such attempt in the aftermath of the 1984 Line 300 affair...

And the ongoing arguments in Israeli media today, whether the Harpaz Document affair was a coup attempt is ridiculous - the coup was executed many years ago.

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Israel: Nation hijacked by a Shin-Bet Judiciary Gang - Landmarks [2]

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1) 1984 - Line 300 affair

2) 1995 - Rabin assassination

3) 2002 - removal of the Supreme Court's servers to IBM custody and corruption of the Supreme Court

One of the key persons in the Israel Police criminal investigation report of the Harpaz document scandal, now before the Attorney General, is then IDF Chief Prosecutor, today Israel cabinet Secretary Mandelblit.

Today, the Quality Government Association called upon Bibi to suspend Mandelblit. The Association says:

"The cabinet secretary is a very senior position, and it is essential that the person holding that position not have above him the cloud of suspected criminal offences, related to undermining the Rule of Law and public service." [1]

Exciting!

It should be recalled that part of the duties and obligations of the cabinet secretary is the custody of cabinet records and safeguard of their integrity. And the Harpaz document scandal originates in the forgery and distribution of a document, in an affair that was described by media as then IDF Chief of Staff Ashkenazi "coup attempt"...

What is not clear at all, is why the Quality Government wakes up only now...

- Under Mandelblit as Cabinet Secretary, the cabinet and Treasury Minister Yair Lapid forwarded to the Knesset for final voting a Budget Act, which included blank pages...

- Under Mandelblit as Cabinet Secretary, the cabinet and Treasury Minister Yair Lapid forwarded to the Knesset for final voting a Budget Act, which included substantial austerity measures. One of them was a substantial cut in welfare allowances for children, which experts agreed would greatly increase the number of children in Israel under "Nutritional Insecurity". Dedicated Public Housing funds were nixed. The measures were described as no choice situation. A few months later it turned out that the Treasury Minister kept a "Secret Reserve" of billions of NIS...

In a civilized state, Lapid and his senior staff would have been prosecuted for fraud, and Mandelblit would have been summarily fired...

RE:
Rafi Rotem - Tax Authority Whistle-blower - Request for
clarifications regarding a series of dubious records, relative to
handling of the case by the State Ombudsman's office.

Your response within
14 days is kindly requested

Dear State Ombudsman
Shapira, Attorneys Nahir and Bar-El:

I am one of the social
protest activists, who support Rotem's quest for justice, and one of
those who maintain the Rafi Rotem Archive. [1]

As such, I request your
clarifications regarding the following records:

1)Unknown
date, Complaint: [2] A record of a complaint to the State
Ombudsman's office, the commencing record in such procedure, stamped
"Received" by the State office, is missing from the
collection. I am aware that in the past Rotem tried to file such
complaint during public hours of the State Ombudsman's office, but
his entry was denied, pursuant to standing orders to the security
detail of the office.

I would be grateful if
you clarify whether such complaint was ever filed by Rotem and
received by the State Ombudsman's office.

2)April 28,
2014 State Ombudsman's Letter to journalists: [3] The record in
our collection describes this communication as coming from State
Ombudsman Shapira and addressed to journalists in response to their
letter to the State Ombudsman in December 2013. [4]

However, this record is
not signed, does not list the addressees, does not list the writer,
fails to include a subject line, reference number in the State
Ombudsman's office, or reference to the journalists' letter.

I would be grateful if
you clarify whether such record is part of the official
communications of the State Ombudsman's office.

3) April 28, 2014
State Ombudsman' Spokesman Release: [5] The text of this record
is the same as 2) above, but it appears on the Spokesman's
letterhead. However, the text fails to appear as a spokesman's
release, since parts of it are written in the first party by State
Ombudsman Shapira, and I could not find it in the online collection
of the State Ombudsman's Spokesman's Releases.

I would be grateful if
you clarify whether such record is part of the official releases of
the State Ombudsman's Spokesman.

4) April 29, 2014
Attorney Nahir's letter to Attorney Bar-El:[6] The letter fails
to list a complaint file number or a State Ombudsman's office
reference number, as found in State formal office communications. The
letter informs Attorney Bar-El of the intention to schedule meetings
for "delivery of verbal information". "Delivery of
verbal information" has no foundation in the State Ombudsman's
Act.

I would be grateful if
you clarify whether such record is part of the official
communications of the State Ombudsman's office.

5)
September 1, 2014 Attorney Bar-El's letter to the State Ombudsman's
office: [7] In this letter,
Attorney Bar-El refers to the "Rotem's testimony", given
during the meetings with the State Ombudsman’s staff. However,
when previously asked to confirm that in these meetings Rotem
provided testimony, pursuant to the law of the State of Israel,
Attorney Bar El refused to do so. [8]

I would be grateful if
you clarify whether in the meetings, discussed above, Rotem provided
"testimony, pursuant to the law of the State of Israel" to
the Ombudsman's office.

In addition, Attorney
Bar-El signed this letter in his capacity as "Ogen CEO",
and not in his capacity as "Rafi Rotem's Counsel". In past
communications, Attorney Bar-El did not find a problem with
appearance in the criminal prosecution of Rotem of attorneys, who
were not duly authorized by Rotem and were not duly appointed by the
Court as "Counsel of Record".

I would be grateful if
you clarify whether this letter was written by Attorney Bar-El in his
capacity as "Rafi Rotem's Counsel".

Combined, concern is that
the State Ombudsman's office and Attorney Bar-El have engaged in the
production of a series of vague and ambiguous records, which are
meant to mislead Rotem, his supporters, media, and the public at
large that the State Ombudsman's office intends to honestly address:
a) Investigation of corruption in the Tax Authority and b) Funds due
to Rotem as a former State employee.

Truly,

_________

Joseph
Zernik, PhD

Human
Rights Alert (NGO)

OccupyTLV

CC:Activists

Knesset
State Oversight Committee

Knesset
State Constitution, Law and Justice Committee

Media

Legal
Professionals

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*
The Human Rights Alert (NGO) submission to the Human Rights Council
of the United Nations was incorporated into the 2010 Periodic Review
Report regarding Human Rights in the United States, with the note:
"corruption of the courts and the legal profession and
discrimination by law enforcement in California".

*
The Human Rights Alert (NGO) submission to the Human Rights Council
of the United Nations was incorporated into the 2013 Periodic Review
Report regarding Human Rights in Israel, with the note: "lack of
integrity of the electronic records of the Supreme Court, the
district courts and the detainees courts in Israel."

11-12-10 Where should Occupy go next? Civil Disobedience in the footsteps of Thoreau and Gandhi!http:// www.scribd.com/doc/75348301/12-06-08 Courts and Judges as racketeering enterprises under RICO (the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) - key element in the current financial crisishttp://www.scribd.com/doc/96504009/Secede! The US in its current form is simply unmanageable...

What did the experts say?

* דוח סייג לזכויות האדם נכלל בדוח התקופתי של האו"ם לגבי זכויות האדם בישראל (2013), בלוויית ההערה: "חוסר יושרה בכתבים האלקטרוניים של בית המשפט העליון, בתי המשפט המחוזיים, ובתי הדין למוחזקי משמורת בישראל".* The Human Rights Alert (NGO) submission to the Human Rights Council of the United Nations was incorporated into the 2010 Periodic Review Report regarding Humnan Rights in the United States, with the note: "corruption of the courts and the legal profession and discrimination by law enforcement in California".* The Human Rights Alert (NGO) submission to the Human Rights Council of the United Nations was incorporated into the 2013 Periodic Review Report regarding Humnan Rights in Israel, with the note: "lack of integrity of the electronic records of the Supreme Court, the district courts and the detainees courts in Israel."

The United States

* "...it's difficult to find a fraud of this size on the U.S. court system in U.S. history... where you have literally tens of thousands of fraudulent documents filed in tens of thousands of cases." Raymond Brescia, a visiting professor at Yale Law School

* Los Angeles County is"the epicenter of the epidemic of real estate and mortgage fraud."FBI (2004)

* “…judges tried and sentenced a staggering number of people for crimes they did not commit."Prof David Burcham, Loyola Law School, LA (2000)

* “This is conduct associated with the most repressive dictators and police states… and judges must share responsibility when innocent people are convicted.”Prof Erwin Chemerinksy, Irvine Law School (2000)

http://www.scribd.com/doc/239647129/The HRA submission was incorporated into the 2015 HRC Professional Staff Report on the United States with the note: :“HRA NGO recommended restoring the integrity of the IT systems of the courts, under accountability to the Congress, with the goal of making such systems as transparent as possible to the public at large.”

[2] Human Rights Alert (NGO) submission for the 2013 UPR of the State of Israel was incorporated into the UN Human Rights Council Professional Staff Report with the note: "Lack of integrity in the electronic record systems of the Supreme Court, the district courts and the detainees' courts in Israel".

2012-06-04 Human Right Alert's Submission; 2013 UPR of the State of Israel: Integrity, or lack thereof, of the

[3] Human Rights Alert (NGO) submission for the 2010 UPR of the United States was incorporated into the UN Human Rights Council Professional Staff Report with the note: "Corruption of the courts and the legal profession and discrimination by law enforcement in California."

2010-04-19 Human Rights Alert (NGO) submission to the United Nations Human Rights Council for the

2010 Review (UPR) of Human Rights in the United States as incorporated into the UPR staff report:

[1] 10-10-01 United Nations Human Rights Council Records for 2010 Review (UPR) of Human Rights in the United States, where Human Rights Alert (NGO) submission was incorporated with a note referring to "corruption of the courts and the legal profession and discrimination by law enforcement in California."http://www.scribd.com/doc/38566837/http://www.scribd.com/doc/108663259/